This is an analysis of the poem Why Don'T You Just Bring The Pictures that begins with:
There is something inappropriate,
About that dress you have chosen to wear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX Xbc dX eeXaeaXc bfXeXed XaXaX fXedX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,8,7,5,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010100 0111111001 1010011 1 010101 101100101010 1110101110 1101 1101 11 1 01101 1010011 101 010110101 111111 101001010 11111010 1 0100 10011101 011010 10 110 110110001 110 111101 10 11101010011 011 1101 11 1 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines understand is repeated).
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